There’s a lot of guff to get through in the Song Chart Flickr pool, but within there are some real gems. (I thought the best ones were towards the end).

Cheers for the link Nicky.

Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar have been scraping the internet again for stuff you’ve posted. This time round they’ve been mining online dating sites to analyse peoples search for love and self. Looks great from the screenshots, shame there’s not a web version, only a working installation in the Museum of Modern Art.

Thankfully we didn’t have to endure these at school in the UK, but here’s a hilarious collections of odd science fair stands. Cheers for the link Kester.

I‘ve just recieved all the maps we need for our imminent hike along the Continental Divide, created by Jonathan Ley, they are better than I expected. Each map (and there’s hundreds of them) has the route and variations drawn on, and is full of notes about the route, places to get water, hot springs and all sorts. This one above just caught my eye though:

Quicksand somewhere on this map, I won’t say where exactly, because that kind of thing is a lot more exciting to dicover by accident. Ahhhh! Quicksand!!!

Can’t wait, I always wondered what it would be like to be stuck in quicksand :) Cheers for the maps Jonathan, they’re amazing!

International King & Queen of Sports is the perfect way to break the ice, entertain and woo the girl/guy of your dreams! Well it’s a bit of fun anyhow… I made it for a valentines a few years ago and thought it was about time I dusted it off and gave it a second outing. Basically it’s a competitive drinking / pubcrawl type game designed for 2 people.

What you get:

• An editable Illustrator file of both the King & Queen score cards
• 2 chest numbers to print out and attach while competing
• Full instructions & rules and regulations of how to play

Download the free King & Queen of Sports Illustrator files here. Feel free to use it in anyway you see fit. For those of you who don’t have Illustrator, you can download a set of pdf’s of the scorecards and numbers here.

There’s 17 mini games to play (you don’t have to complete them all) here’s a basic description of them in order:

1. Tally up your pints, 10 points each - remember this isn’t a date, it’s a pub crawl, so drink!
2. Highest free standing tower - Think empire states building, iron girders and all - use the marshmellows as joints and the spaghetti as girders. You might need to get a referee to judge the tallest if it’s a close call.
3. Darts is obvious, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a pub with a board these days…
4. Bar Billiards - tricky one, the only pub I know of in London which has it is the Owl and Pussycat on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch. You’re in luck though, as it’s also the finest pub in the whole of London so should definitely be on your list of pubs to crawl to.
5. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghing the longest - this is a game inspired by one of the GI Joe clips over at Fensler film. Basically you both start saying ‘baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr’, first person to run out of breath loses.
6. Beer mats tossed - flip ‘em and then catch ‘em.
7. Biggest bubble gum bubble.
8. Table football - some folk call it fussball, you all know how to play
9. The trussing game - this is my favourite, it’s an old Victorian parlour game, but requires some diagrams to properly explain… google it, I’ll try and do a proper post about it later.
10. Dominoes
11. Karaoke - you need a referee to judge
12. The splits - you know trying to touch the floor with your crotch while your legs are straight - the lady will more likely win this one.
13. Portraits - drawing each other (you’ll need so paper and pens) - you also need a referee to judge.
14. Pool
15. Derek Zoolander Award - most outrageous clothing on the day bags these points.
16. Best banter (mutual decision)
17. French Kissing - save this for last!

You should also have with you a bottle of Champagne, so at the end of the night when the scores are added up, the winner can spray it all over the loser, grand-prix style.

These pixel car icons by TurboMilk are friking awesome. Shame that the site they’re used on doesn’t do them justice.

Cheers for the link Dom.

This is some of the saddest news I’ve heard for sometime :( Apparently the price of a pint is set to rise by up to 60%. All due to poor weather and the price of hops going up…

Lokesh Dhakar has produced this lovely infographic of common coffee drinks. He’s even providing the source files for you to download, what a nice guy!

Via IntermissionOne.

Some interesting pie charts of the proportional usage of colour on flags. Above is the colours of all flags combined.

Earlier today I was accused by Beddardo of having ‘no seaside knowledge’, I defended myself by explaining that my home town of Huddersfield is probably bang in the middle of Great Britain (top to bottom and left to right) and so far from the sea that knowledge of seaside things such as crab lines was unusual. She didn’t beleave me, so I made the diagram below to prove my point. Not quite, but it’s not far off!

Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Flying summarises his life in a series of personal pie charts.